Hi all. Anyone here with decent PGP experience?
I have a version on my home PC. I want to use it to simply protect my own files, rather than for the purpose of sharing files with another user (which is its intended use in most cases, sending sensitive data over a network for example).
My version on windows has a facility whereby if you right click the file, select PGP -> Encrypt with passphrase, I simply enter my secret phrase and the PGP file is created. However, I haven't created any private or public keys - it seems I don't need to for this simple purpose - even though it complains that it can't find any master keys, the operation still completes successfully.
What I can't be sure of, however, is if some time in the future I install PGP on another machine, then try and unpack my PGP files using my secret phrase, will this definitely work?
The only way I can really be sure I suppose, is to experiment with someone who has PGP installed elsewhere. I could zip up a simple text file, send it over with the passphrase, and see if it can be read by my helper.
Any takers on this, or advice? Cheers.
I have a version on my home PC. I want to use it to simply protect my own files, rather than for the purpose of sharing files with another user (which is its intended use in most cases, sending sensitive data over a network for example).
My version on windows has a facility whereby if you right click the file, select PGP -> Encrypt with passphrase, I simply enter my secret phrase and the PGP file is created. However, I haven't created any private or public keys - it seems I don't need to for this simple purpose - even though it complains that it can't find any master keys, the operation still completes successfully.
What I can't be sure of, however, is if some time in the future I install PGP on another machine, then try and unpack my PGP files using my secret phrase, will this definitely work?
The only way I can really be sure I suppose, is to experiment with someone who has PGP installed elsewhere. I could zip up a simple text file, send it over with the passphrase, and see if it can be read by my helper.
Any takers on this, or advice? Cheers.
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